Mesut Ozil tweet goes viral after Arsenal’s scintillating victory

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Mesut Ozil says Arsenal played “sexy football” during Monday’s 3-1 victory over Leicester at The Emirates.

Ozil, who captained Arsenal, was integral to the come-from-behind win, scoring the equaliser on the stroke of half-time before playing a key role in Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang’s second-half double.

The German schemer was named man of the match after afterwards he took to Twitter and made a post which received over 150,000 interactions.

“I think we played some sexy football tonight. Proud captain of this team and this club!” Ozil said on Twitter after Arsenal moved up to fourth in the Premier League table.

Asked how Arsenal coach Unai Emery had harnessed Ozil’s many talents into top form, Emery replied: “It’s very important we spoke. We want to enjoy ourselves, but to enjoy working hard.

“If you want to win you need to work and you need to be together, suffer together.

“With our quality if we’re suffering, we can enjoy it too. Enjoyment on its own is not good, but if we’re suffering too, it can be good.

“Mesut Ozil had a very good performance today. We are going to push to demand more from ourselves and from him also.

“In the team we have a lot of players with this capacity (to be captain) because each player can help us with their quality and capacity.

“We have very clear captains and each one is important, but I think he (Ozil) can play every match with his commitment and his quality.

“We are going to demand this commitment and behaviour from every player, and then with our quality we can help each other on the pitch.”